Searching: mount a file as a drive letter for WinXP

[klagol]

Hello folks,

I'm searching for a freeware tool, which provides a drive letter out of
a file on harddisk for Windows XP. That means, that I want to store a
file of defined size anywhere on my harddisk, and when I need it, the
programm should make me able to mount the file as a device (drive
letter) (comparable to dummy devices under linux or Daemon Tools with
write access). Would be nice if the file can contain any desired filesystem.

Thanks for all suggestions.

 

[Hermit]

Hello folks,

I'm searching for a freeware tool, which provides a drive letter out of
a file on harddisk for Windows XP. That means, that I want to store a
file of defined size anywhere on my harddisk, and when I need it, the
programm should make me able to mount the file as a device (drive
letter) (comparable to dummy devices under linux or Daemon Tools with
write access). Would be nice if the file can contain any desired filesystem.

Thanks for all suggestions.

The Assign command used to do this on older versions of Windows, don't know
about XP.

Good Luck

H

 

[klagol]

Hermit wrote on 14.07.2004 11:01:

Hello folks,

I'm searching for a freeware tool, which provides a drive letter out of
a file on harddisk for Windows XP.

[...]

The Assign command used to do this on older versions of Windows, don't know
about XP.

Can't find it in XP and a google search didn't bring anything to light.
There is a command called "subst", which does the wanted thing, but
unfortunately only for directories :-(

Thanks.

 

[Terry]

The Assign command used to do this on older versions of Windows, don't know
about XP.

Assign doesn't exist on nt/2k/xp. Besides, as I recall, Assign let you
substitute one drive letter for another, it did not substitute a drive
letter for a file.

I think you (the OP) are looking for a virtual disk driver (also know
as file system driver, or loopback device). This lets you emulate a
disk drive on a file. Look at filedisk at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/.

From that page: "FileDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows
NT/2000/XP that uses one or more files to emulate physical disks. A
console application is included that let you dynamically mount and
unmount files. An example of use for this driver is if you have made
plans spending the weekend writing an RAID driver for NT but find you
are short of disks. FileDisk can also use CD-images."

Terry

 

[klagol]

Terry wrote on 14.07.2004 13:08:

I'm searching for a freeware tool, which provides a drive letter out of
a file on harddisk for Windows XP.
[...]

I think you (the OP) are looking for a virtual disk driver (also know
as file system driver, or loopback device). This lets you emulate a
disk drive on a file. Look at filedisk at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~bosse/.

Great piece of work. That thing is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks Terry!